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Research article

Pharmacoeconomic analysis of antifungal therapy for primary treatment of invasive candidiasis caused by Candida albicans and non-albicans Candida species

Huang-Tz Ou, Tsung-Ying Lee, Yee-Chun Chen and Claudie Charbonneau

BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:481

Published on: 10 July 2017
Research

5-Aminolevulinic acid promotes arachidonic acid biosynthesis in the red microalga Porphyridium purpureum

Kailin Jiao, Jingyu Chang, Xianhai Zeng, I-Son Ng, Zongyuan Xiao, Yong Sun, Xing Tang and Lu Lin

Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:168

Published on: 26 June 2017
Research article

The facial expression of schizophrenic patients applied with infrared thermal facial image sequence

Bo-Lin Jian, Chieh-Li Chen, Wen-Lin Chu and Min-Wei Huang

BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:229

Published on: 24 June 2017
Research article

Regional and hospital variations in the extent of decline in the proportion of percutaneous coronary interventions performed for nonacute indications – a nationwide population-based study

Fu-Wen Liang, Tsung-Hsueh Lu, Hsin-Min Wu, Jo-Chi Lee and Wei-Hsian Yin

BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2017 17:149

Published on: 9 June 2017
Research article

Maternal blood cadmium, lead and arsenic levels, nutrient combinations, and offspring birthweight

Yiwen Luo, Lauren E. McCullough, Jung-Ying Tzeng, Thomas Darrah, Avner Vengosh, Rachel L. Maguire, Arnab Maity, Carmen Samuel-Hodge, Susan K. Murphy, Michelle A. Mendez and Cathrine Hoyo

BMC Public Health 2017 17:354

Published on: 24 April 2017
Research

Tendon-motion tracking in an ultrasound image sequence using optical-flow-based block matching

Bo-I Chuang, Jian-Han Hsu, Li-Chieh Kuo, I-Ming Jou, Fong-Chin Su and Yung-Nien Sun

BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2017 16:47

Published on: 20 April 2017
Research

Responsiveness of the short-form health survey and the Parkinson’s disease questionnaire in patients with Parkinson’s disease

Xiao-Jing Tu, Wen-Juh Hwang, Shih-Pin Hsu and Hui-Ing Ma

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:75

Published on: 18 April 2017
Research article

Association of traditional Chinese medicine therapy and the risk of dementia in patients with hypertension: a nationwide population-based cohort study

Kuen-Hau Chen, Ming-Hsien Yeh, Hanoch Livneh, Bor-Chyuan Chen, I-Hsin Lin, Ming-Chi Lu, Tzung-Yi Tsai and Chia-Chou Yeh

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17:178

Published on: 29 March 2017
Research

Pterostilbene prevents AKT-ERK axis-mediated polymerization of surface fibronectin on suspended lung cancer cells independently of apoptosis and suppresses metastasis

Ying-Jan Wang, Jing-Fang Lin, Li-Hsin Cheng, Wen-Tsan Chang, Ying-Hsien Kao, Ming-Min Chang, Bour-Jr Wang and Hung-Chi Cheng

Journal of Hematology & Oncology 2017 10:72

Published on: 21 March 2017
Methodology article

Low-cell-number, single-tube amplification (STA) of total RNA revealed transcriptome changes from pluripotency to endothelium

Yi-Hsuan Lee, Ya-Wen Hsueh, Yao-Hung Peng, Kung-Chao Chang, Kuen-Jer Tsai, H. Sunny Sun, Ih-Jen Su and Po-Min Chiang

BMC Biology 2017 15:22

Published on: 21 March 2017
Research article

Clinical features of community acquired adenovirus pneumonia during the 2011 community outbreak in Southern Taiwan: role of host immune response

Ching-Fen Shen, Shih-Min Wang, Tzong-Shiann Ho and Ching-Chuan Liu

BMC Infectious Diseases 2017 17:196

Published on: 7 March 2017
Research article

Factors associated with sexual dysfunction in Taiwanese females with rheumatoid arthritis

Miao-Chiu Lin, Ming-Chi Lu, Hanoch Livneh, Ning-Sheng Lai, How-Ran Guo and Tzung-Yi Tsai

BMC Women's Health 2017 17:12

Published on: 14 February 2017
Research

Endothelial differentiation of bone marrow mesenchyme stem cells applicable to hypoxia and increased migration through Akt and NFκB signals

Cheng Liu, An-Ly Tsai, Ping-Chia Li, Chia-Wei Huang and Chia-Ching Wu

Stem Cell Research & Therapy 2017 8:29

Published on: 7 February 2017
Research

Feasibility of CO₂ mitigation and carbohydrate production by microalga Scenedesmus obliquus CNW-N used for bioethanol fermentation under outdoor conditions: effects of seasonal changes

Shih-Hsin Ho, Yi-Di Chen, Ching-Yu Chang, Yen-Ying Lai, Chun-Yen Chen, Akihiko Kondo, Nan-Qi Ren and Jo-Shu Chang

Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:27

Published on: 31 January 2017
Software

MVIAeval: a web tool for comprehensively evaluating the performance of a new missing value imputation algorithm

Wei-Sheng Wu and Meng-Jhun Jhou

BMC Bioinformatics 2017 18:31

Published on: 13 January 2017
Research article

The burden of major adverse cardiac events in patients with coronary artery disease

I-Ting Tsai, Chao-Ping Wang, Yung-Chuan Lu, Wei-Chin Hung, Cheng-Ching Wu, Li-Fen Lu, Fu-Mei Chung, Chia-Chang Hsu, Yau-Jiunn Lee and Teng-Hung Yu

BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2017 17:1

Published on: 4 January 2017
Research article

Pathological fractures in predicting clinical outcomes for patients with osteosarcoma

Lien-Hsiang Chung, Po-Kuei Wu, Cheng-Fong Chen, Hung-Kai Weng, Tain-Hsiung Chen and Wei-Ming Chen

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:503

Published on: 28 December 2016
Research article

Comparing the effects of different dynamic sitting strategies in wheelchair seating on lumbar-pelvic angle

Chun-Ting Li, Yao-Te Peng, Yen-Ting Tseng, Yen-Nien Chen and Kuen-Horng Tsai

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:496

Published on: 9 December 2016
Case report

Obscured hemorrhagic pancreatitis after orthotopic heart transplantation complicated with acute right heart failure and hepatic dysfunction: a case report

Ting-Wei Lin, Meng-Ta Tsai, Jun-Neng Roan, Yi-Sheng Liu, Hong-Ming Tsai and Chwan-Yau Luo

Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2016 11:166

Published on: 1 December 2016
Research

Limited predictability of maximal muscular pressure using the difference between peak airway pressure and positive end-expiratory pressure during proportional assist ventilation (PAV)

Po-Lan Su, Pei-Shan Kao, Wei-Chieh Lin, Pei-Fang Su and Chang-Wen Chen

Critical Care 2016 20:382

Published on: 27 November 2016

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Pharmacoeconomic analysis of antifungal therapy for primary treatment of invasive candidiasis caused by Candida albicans and non-albicans Candida species

5-Aminolevulinic acid promotes arachidonic acid biosynthesis in the red microalga Porphyridium purpureum

The facial expression of schizophrenic patients applied with infrared thermal facial image sequence

Regional and hospital variations in the extent of decline in the proportion of percutaneous coronary interventions performed for nonacute indications – a nationwide population-based study

Maternal blood cadmium, lead and arsenic levels, nutrient combinations, and offspring birthweight

Tendon-motion tracking in an ultrasound image sequence using optical-flow-based block matching

Responsiveness of the short-form health survey and the Parkinson’s disease questionnaire in patients with Parkinson’s disease

Association of traditional Chinese medicine therapy and the risk of dementia in patients with hypertension: a nationwide population-based cohort study

Pterostilbene prevents AKT-ERK axis-mediated polymerization of surface fibronectin on suspended lung cancer cells independently of apoptosis and suppresses metastasis

Low-cell-number, single-tube amplification (STA) of total RNA revealed transcriptome changes from pluripotency to endothelium

Clinical features of community acquired adenovirus pneumonia during the 2011 community outbreak in Southern Taiwan: role of host immune response

Factors associated with sexual dysfunction in Taiwanese females with rheumatoid arthritis

Endothelial differentiation of bone marrow mesenchyme stem cells applicable to hypoxia and increased migration through Akt and NFκB signals

Feasibility of CO₂ mitigation and carbohydrate production by microalga Scenedesmus obliquus CNW-N used for bioethanol fermentation under outdoor conditions: effects of seasonal changes

MVIAeval: a web tool for comprehensively evaluating the performance of a new missing value imputation algorithm

The burden of major adverse cardiac events in patients with coronary artery disease

Pathological fractures in predicting clinical outcomes for patients with osteosarcoma

Comparing the effects of different dynamic sitting strategies in wheelchair seating on lumbar-pelvic angle

Obscured hemorrhagic pancreatitis after orthotopic heart transplantation complicated with acute right heart failure and hepatic dysfunction: a case report

Limited predictability of maximal muscular pressure using the difference between peak airway pressure and positive end-expiratory pressure during proportional assist ventilation (PAV)

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